FOOD: Bigger Basket

Franklin Roosevelt named a U.S.-British
Combined Food Board last week and told a little story to explain its
purpose.

In England during World War I, he recalled, he spent one evening
listening to grim tales of British belt-tightenings. But for his next
breakfast he got a heaping platter of bacon, which he devoured with
gusto. To his hostess he explained that at home he had gone without
bacon for 18 months so the British could have it.

The new board, said Mr. Roosevelt, will prevent that kind of thingקts
job is to make a giant food basket for all the United...